Bill Not Paying

The Sims4 game is no longer allowing bills to paid. When the Sim go to the mailbox or use their phone and select pay bills it doesn't deduct the amount from the total amount the sims have. And eventually the power to the sims home is turned off. I have tried taking the sim to another world and returning home only to find the same thing is still occurring. I have changed the house and even moved the sim to another lot and still the same thing is happening. This same bug happened about 4 months ago and it happened right after an update was downloaded and now it's happening again but this time it's happening before a new update has been downloaded. I would appreciate it if someone at the Sims team would find a fix for this so that this bug can stop happening every 4 months. And as of right now none of the workarounds are working at all. 

Edit By Crinrict: Removed all-caps from title